Random: Matthew and St. Thomas Aquinas are now friends.

[nebroadwe]

You don't have to be Christian to appreciate this one (though it helps to know the basic elements of the story being parodied -- and to have a nodding acquaintance with a certain social media site):

The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ According to Facebook

Sniggled from nateprentice. Share and enjoy! (Note: It's a .pdf, not a web page.)

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[ishte.livejournal.com]

This was extremely fun. Maybe even more fun looking at it from a pagan point of view...

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

I dunno about that. I was ROFLing pretty hard at "I'll put a stop to this, or my name isn't Saul!" (I'd never encountered Bart Ehrman, though, but it sounds like he's one of the people John P. Meier might be getting all curmudgeonly about in the latter volumes of A Marginal Jew.)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

now THAT is funny

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

nateprentice finds some of the best stuff on the 'Net.

[artemisrae.livejournal.com]

"Seriously, have you seen how beautiful John's hair is?"

And I appreciate the inclusion of Dan Brown, if only because I had to listen to so many classmates in high school get their minds blown by the Da Vinci Code. To the point that it encompassed a hysterical forty minute religion class one afternoon. And when I mean hysterical, I mean in the "they're coming to take me away" context, not in the "LOL" context.

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Oogh. My response to Dan Brown, both as a litcritter and a Christian theist with some sense of the historical issues, is best summed up as: [EYEROLL]. The best thing to come out of his career so far, IMO, was the plagiarism suit against The DaVinci Code by the Holy Blood, Holy Grail people, who had previously claimed their book was HISTORY! TRUE HISTORY! TRUE *SEKRIT* HISTORY! Hee hee.

I try to be sympathetic to mind-blown people, because I remember having a less strenuous version of the experience as a freshman in college when my comp lit class pulled apart the text of the story of David in the Hebrew Bible and pointed out where the seams from the different traditions were. I had a hard time re-reading it without going, "Wow, loose threads here! And here! And here!" for a bit. Then I stopped worrying and learned to love textual criticism (survival strategy for an English major) and now I'm reading Meier and Fitzmeyer and Brown (Raymond, not Dan!) quite happily.

[a-big-apple.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, you have just made my most hated holiday a thousand times better! Awesome.

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you hate the holiday. Want to come to our enormous geekly Easter Dinner? We could, to borrow a phrase, ply you with food rewards that would create positive conditioning in rocks ... [dangles chocolate truffle cheesecake temptingly] :-)

[a-big-apple.livejournal.com]

Wow...chocolate truffle cheesecake sounds a bit like heaven... *drool* Most of the problem is that I'm a vaguely angry lapsed Catholic, and Easter makes me more angry than most other things. But I'm spending it with my best best friend who knows how much I hate it and tends to make it better, so hopefully all will go well this year. ;)

But now I'm thinking about chocolate truffle cheesecake. Yum.

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Most of the problem is that I'm a vaguely angry lapsed Catholic, and Easter makes me more angry than most other things. But I'm spending it with my best best friend who knows how much I hate it and tends to make it better, so hopefully all will go well this year. ;)

I hope so, too. From the other side of the fence, this Catholic choir-person is about to spend the next week in extremely close proximity with a number of people whom I quite like under normal circumstances, but will be ready to kill at least three of by Easter Sunday morning. (That is, if we aren't all in jail for a Murder on the Orient Express-style takedown of the pastor by then.) The big dinner afterward allows us to retell all the hassles ("I can't believe he used mesquite chips and lighter fluid for the New Fire -- inside the building!") and drama as war stories while eating ourselves into a pleasant collective food coma. Otherwise I don't think any of us would still be doing music for the Triduum year after year after year ...

It also allows us to retell all the previous years' war stories, like the gent who wandered into the nave, dropped to his knees, flung out his arms and shouted, "It is I!" during the Vigil one year, or the time one of the associate pastors decided they needed to use real tree branches for sprinkling holy water, snuck up into the loft, and doused half the choir (the music from that year is still kind of ripply), or the innumerable times we fired up the organ and blew the loft breaker just as we had to launch into "Jesus Christ Is Risen Today," or the time the downstairs cantor kept getting fits of the giggles because the choir director's shadow as he conducted kept reminding her of Batman ... we've got a million of them ... ;-)

Chocolate truffle cheesecake FTW! kanja177 always has me make her one for her birthday now.

[a-big-apple.livejournal.com]

Haha, WOW, those are some awesome stories! Clearly your Easter week is much more thrilling than any I've experienced. The "It is I!" guy is pretty hilarious!